CABLE NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2210, 29 August 1910, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

London, August 27. There are ovt:r one hundred and thirty thousand cases of cholera in Russia, five hundred and seventy towns and villages being iufeoted. When the plague appears the people get panic strick.m and fly elsewhere carrying the infection. Children have boon left to starve beside the c >rpscs. The ooal mines are deserted and a coal f inline is imminent. T.vo cases have osaurred in Vienna. Over three thousand four hundred Jews in the Argentine, representing twenty thousand souls have this year harvested cereals valued at £737,200. Kilio Freitacj'a the nineteen year old daughter of an Orleans resident, shot her fiancee named Michalor, alleging ho had betrayed her. The authorities are delaying the trial fear ing an acquittal undor the defence of the '■ unwritten law."

Spotted fever is prevalent in ten villages in the English midlands, and several deaths are reported from Nottingham. A Dutch steamer collided with and sank a trawler off Boulosge, seven persons being drowned. A Dutch aviator fell at Arnheim and was killed. The Kaiser in the course of a remarkable speech at Konighberg do clared he looked upon himself as an instrument of the Lord, ad ling he would go his way regardless of tbe views or opinions of the day. The speech has aroused protests and criticisms throughout Germany.

Eight highwaymen, by flag signalling, stopped an lowa train ana covered the driver and fireman, and had commenced robbing the passengers when the train staff secured revolvers in the rear and turned the tables on them, five being arrested. The case of the French Englishman arrested in Germany for espionage is assuming grave proportions. He was previously arrested last year when he obtained the drawings of German fortifications and furnished them to a foreign power with photograps of a fort at Heligoland.